Auction 85 - Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art

Kevod HaLevanon – Collection of Issues – Jerusalem, 1863

Opening: $300
Sold for: $550
Including buyer's premium

Kevod HaLevanon, Torah supplement to the HaLevanon newspaper – collection of issues from the newspaper's first year. [Jerusalem, 1863].
The collection includes the Kevod HaLevanon supplements to most of the issues from 1863 (issues 2-12. The supplement to issue 2 is lacking one page, and the supplement to issue 4 is lacking 3 pages; a detailed list will be sent upon request).
Kevod HaLevanon served as an important forum for essays, discussions and correspondence on halachah and current events, including famous polemics. The writers featured in the present issues include: the Netziv of Volozhin, R. Shmuel Salant, R. Yitzchak Prague, R. Yehosef Schwartz, R. Meir Auerbach, and others.
The supplement to issue 10 contains a special polemic article against the printer R. Yisrael Bak, who had claimed that the publishers were violating his exclusive rights by establishing a printing press in Jerusalem.
[20] leaves. Approx. 31-33 cm. Fair condition. Stains. Marginal tears. Some detached leaves.


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Jerusalem and Eretz Israel – Letters and Printed Matter
Jerusalem and Eretz Israel – Letters and Printed Matter